Firsts London 2021
21.-24. Oktober 2021
The Saatchi Gallery, London SW3
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1Aus dem Besitz des Theologen Johann Hofmüllner von WeitraHomilien von Augustinus, Beda u. a. (Und:) (Pseudo-)Petrus de Pilichdorf …Wohl Niederösterreich, vor 1447.
€ 45.000,00Schöne Predigtenhandschrift des Spätmittelalters, aus dem Besitz des Wiener Theologen Johann Hofmüllner aus Weitra (gest. 1475); am Schluss ergänzt durch eine Waldenserschrift. Enthält im ersten Teil hauptsächlich aus Augustinus und Beda gezogene Homilien auf verschiedene Festtage und Bibelstellen:
1r: In vigilia ascensionis. S. Johan. …
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3St Augustine's "City of God"De civitate dei.Venice, 1475.
Auf AnfrageBeautifully printed incunabular edition of St Augustine's "City of God", the seventh printing altogether and the third printed in Venice (after those of Vindelinus de Spira from 1470 and of Nicolaus Jenson, dated 2 October 1475). It comes from the presses of the Treviso-born printer Gabriele di Pietro, whose first productions date back to 1472, and …
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![[The gathering of Manna and a Dominican friar reading mass].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/img-bn54644-324x324.jpg)
4[The gathering of Manna and a Dominican friar reading mass].Swabia, 1475-1500.
€ 6.500,00Circular miniature initial separated into two parts by a curved S-shape in gilt. The upper section represents three Jewish figures gathering manna falling from the heavens during the Exodus. To the right a horned Moses is seen. The lower section shows a Dominican friar celebrating mass before a monstrance and an altar. The manna scene serves as a …
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6Splendid imitation Grolier binding by HaguéInstitutiones. (Comm. Franciscus Accursius).Nuremberg, 27 Dec. 1486.
Auf AnfrageFine Koberger edition of the Institutes of Justinian, the students' textbook that forms part of the sixth-century codification of Roman law known as the Corpus Juris Civilis. Printed in red and black Gothic typeface with the gloss of Accursius, this rare edition from the press of Dürer's godfather is sought after for the high quality of its printing.
The …
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7Prachtvolle Pergamenthandschrift von Jean Coene, reich illustriert mit weiblichen Heiligen, vermutlich angefertigt für ein Pariser NonnenklosterLateinische Handschrift auf Pergament.Nordfrankreich, um 1500.
Auf AnfrageBesonders sorgfältig ausgeführtes Manuskript mit bemerkenswerter Ausstattung durch den Pariser Illuminator Jean Coene IV, genannt der "Meister der Pariser Einzüge". Neben den Hunderten auf Goldgrund gemalten, meist mit Blumen, Beeren und Blättern geschmückten Initialen enthält die Handschrift folgenden Bildschmuck: fol. 7v Hl. Hieronymus (28:30 …
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9Erste deutsche Ausgabe des wichtigsten Renaissancewerks über weibliche ErziehungVon underweysung ayner Christlichen Frauwen, Drey Bücher.Augsburg, 1. März 1544.
€ 18.000,00Erste deutsche Ausgabe des wichtigsten Renaissancewerks über weibliche Erziehung; eines der meistgelesenen Bücher des 16. Jahrhunderts. "Vives, der am Beginn der neuzeitlichen Pädagogik steht, legte mit diesem Buch das erste seiner Art vor" (KLL). Handelt in 36 Kapiteln von den weiblichen Tugenden: Von der aufferziehung, der ubrigen Kindhayt, …
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![[Kitab al-Manazir, latine]. Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, nunc primum editi. Eiusdem liber de crepusculis & Nubium ascensionibus. Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X [...]. (Ed. F. Risner).](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/img-bn53590-324x324.jpg)
10Geschenk von Wilhelm Xylander[Kitab al-Manazir, latine]. Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, …Basel, August 1572.
€ 95.000,00Erste Ausgabe von Alhazens Hauptwerk, der Optik. Der um das Jahr 1000 wirkende Alhazen war einer der bedeutendsten arabischen Physiker seiner Zeit. Die hier erstmals erschienene lateinische Übersetzung übte großen Einfluss auf die westliche Wissenschaft aus, besonders im Bereich experimenteller Arbeiten, Katoptrik sowie in der Beschreibung des …
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![The First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias, Enterprised by the Portingales, in their Daungerous Navigations [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/img-bn56683-324x324.jpg)
11One of the first works in English on the exploration of the worldThe First Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East …London, 1582.
€ 85.000,00First English edition of one of the most important historical works of the first great age of discovery, "very rare" (Hill). The author mentions several journeys to the "Moores of Arabia" (27r), such as one in 1487 "to Toro, which is a place that hath his harbour in the Straights of the red Sea in the Coast of Arabia", and other places "in the selfe …
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![Irshad al-ha'ir ila takhtit fadl al-da'ir [Guide to the Right Path for the Perplexed in Drawing (Lines) of Surplus of Turn].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/img-bn53810-324x324.jpg)
12Treatise on drawing horary lines on horizontal, vertical, and oblique sundialsIrshad al-ha'ir ila takhtit fadl al-da'ir [Guide to the Right Path for …No place, late 16th century CE ca. 1000 H.
Auf AnfrageAn astronomical work on drawing horary lines on sundials, by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shihab al-Din ibn al-Majdi, arranged in three parts: horizontal sundials; vertical sundials; and oblique sundials. Other copies can be found in Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul, Leiden, Rabat and Tunis; there appears to be no copy of this work in the British …
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13"Masterpiece of design"Alphabetum arabicum.Rome, 1592.
Auf AnfrageOnly edition of this early milestone of Arabic typography from the Roman Medici Press, including a Latin treatise on Arabic script. The Medici Oriental Press, the first printing press in Europe dedicated to printing books in an Arabic typeface, was founded in Rome under the direction of Giovanni Battista Raimondi and the patronage of Pope Gregory …
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![[Kitab al-tasrif ta'lif al-shaykh al-Imami]. Liber Tasriphi compositio est Senis Alemami: traditur in eo compendiosa notitia coniugationum verbi arabici.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/img-bn54148-324x324.jpg)
14The Medicea's last production: dedication copy for Pope Paul V[Kitab al-tasrif ta'lif al-shaykh al-Imami]. Liber Tasriphi compositio …Rome, 1610.
Auf AnfrageFirst edition of this grammatical treatise of Arabic known as the "Tasrif al-Zanjani", not printed again until 1817 (in Istanbul): the final work to leave Raimondi's famous Medicea press, and the only one produced there after a hiatus of 15 years. The long hibernation phase into which the Medicea entered after printing her last book in 1595 for Pope …
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![Origine, e fondatione di tutte le religioni, e militie di cavallieri, con le croci, et segni usati da quelle; erette da prencipi diversi in vari tempi [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/img-bn54501-324x324.jpg)
15Origine, e fondatione di tutte le religioni, e militie di cavallieri, con …Vicenza, 1614.
€ 6.500,00First edition. Rare treatise on the history of the orders of knighthood, by the Reverend Andrea Guarini, discussing the origin and foundation of all religious and military orders established since the early Middle Ages. The work includes descriptions of the Constantinian Order ("the noblest and oldest", p. 5), the Knights Templar, the Knights of …
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![[Jadawel mavadeh thavabet dar tool wa ard keh be rasad yaft-e Oloq Bayk ben Sharokh ben Taymoor], sive Tabulae long. ac lat. stellarum fixarum, ex observatione Ulugh Beighi [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/img-bn52374-324x324.jpg)
16The greatest of star catalogues between those of Ptolemy and Brahe[Jadawel mavadeh thavabet dar tool wa ard keh be rasad yaft-e Oloq Bayk …Oxford, 1665.
Auf AnfrageEditio princeps of Ulugh Beg’s "Zij-i Jadid-i Sultani", in the words of the Encyclopedia Britannica “the greatest of star catalogues between those of Ptolemy and Brahe”. Ulugh Beg (1394-1449) was the grandson of Timur, known in Europe as Tamerlane. In 1409, his father, Shah Rukh, appointed him governor of Samarkand, and he quickly set about …
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17A cross-cultural milestone, unpublished for more than 150 years: a Polish-born Turk's Osmanli Bible, produced under the auspices of a Dutch project for universal peaceTurkish translation of the New Testament. Secretarial manuscript with Ali …Constantinople, 1665.
€ 75.000,00Considered lost: a volume of Ali Ufki Bey's famous Bible translation, "the lineal ancestor of today’s Turkish Bible" (Privratsky), the last manuscript in private hands.
A project born of Protestant disappointment with the outcome of the 30 Years' War, the 17th century enterprise to translate the Bible into Turkish was informed by Christian …
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25Splendid neoclassical binding by G. F. Krauss for Duke Albert of Saxe-TeschenOpera.Paris, 1799.
€ 18.000,00Didot's "Louvre" edition of Horace, limited to 250 copies, of which this is no. 46 (and one of 100 copies containing the engravings "avant la lettre), signed by the publisher Pierre Didot the Elder ("No. 46 quarante-sixieme sur deux cents cinquante. P. Didot, l'aine"). The elegant unsigned binding is to be attributed to the Viennese artist bookbinder …
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![Autograph musical manuscript of two short works for piano: "All[egre]tto" (24 bars, in contrasting A major and A minor sections), and "Mazur" (14 bars in D minor), signed ("Ch") twice at the end of each piece.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/img-bn53632-324x324.jpg)
29Two short piano works inspired by Polish folk musicAutograph musical manuscript of two short works for piano: "All[egre]tto" …No place, ca. 1832-1833.
€ 240.000,00Two short piano works inspired by Polish folk music. Kobylanska considers that whilst both works are signed by Chopin, they are too unsophisticated to be his own compositions, and are perhaps transcriptions of Polish folk tunes: "Beide Stücke sind zwar mit Ch signiert, in ihrer ganzen Art jedoch zu primitiv, als daß man sie für eigene Kompositionen …
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31The first Chinese vessel ever to sail from Hong Kong to New YorkA Description of the Chinese Junk "Keying".London, 1848.
Auf AnfrageExhibition catalogue for the Chinese trade junk "Keying", at anchor for visitors against admission in the London Docklands in 1848. Personalised copy of the Swedish visitor Carl Peter Freidenfeldt, with autograph of and stamped by the Mandarin on board, He Sing.
The "Keying", an impressive 3-masted 800-ton sailing ship, was the first Chinese …
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3313 Originalzeichnungen in Gedenkeinband.O. O., 1857.
€ 9.500,00Prächtiges Album mit ethnographischen Porträts, möglicherweise Zeichenvorlagen für die (wie ihre Mutter) schon als junges Mädchen hochtalentierte englische Prinzessin Louise (1848-1939), das sechste Kind von Queen Victoria und Prinz Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha. Die feinen, hochqualitativen und detailgetreuen Zeichnungen zeigen Menschen …
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34Early Turkish voyage and expeditionSeyâhatnâme-i Bahr-i Muhit.Istanbul, 1868 CE = 1285 H.
€ 9.500,00First and only early edition.
An exceedingly rare travelogue of the first ever voyage of the Ottoman navy to the American continent, albeit accidental. Thrown off their course to Basra by a storm on the Atlantic near Cape Verde, the two Ottoman warships Bursa and Izmir were dragged in the opposite direction, to Rio de Janeiro. This lively account …
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36Mit eigenhändiger VerfasserwidmungÜber den Bau der Nervenfasern und Nervenzellen beim Flusskrebs.Wien, 1882.
€ 15.000,00Erste Ausgabe der fünften eigenen Veröffentlichung Freuds als Separatabdruck aus Bd. LXXXV, 3. Abteilung, Jänner-Heft. Der Vorderumschlag mit eigenh. Widmung und U. an seinen Schulfreund, den Chemiker Josef Herzig: "Seinem lieben Freunde Dr. Jozef Herzig / dVerf.".
Der Umschlag leicht angestaubt, sonst tadelloses, unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar …
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38Inscribed by the author to Sultan Abdul Hamid IIUeber den Rückzug der Zehntausend. Eine Studie.Berlin, 1886.
€ 8.500,00First and sole edition of this historical study of the "March of the Ten Thousand", the retreat of Greek mercenaries immortalized in Xenophon's "Anabasis". The author retraces the soldiers' marching route, drawing on his own experience after having spent several years in Armenia. The map shows a portion of Higher Armenia with the author's own route, …
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42Photographs taken by the author between 1905 and 1915Bilder aus Palästina, Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai.Berlin, 1916.
€ 48.000,00A rare photographic record of the major sites and geographic features in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The images - taken for the most part by Moritz but some by Turkish friends in areas where he was prohibited from going - depict pilgrims on the Hajj to Mecca, Bedouins, the building of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and the …
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43Numerierte Vorzugsausgabe in tadellosem Zustand, jeweils mit den eigenhändigen Unterschriften der PorträtiertenKöpfe 1920. Eine Sammlung von Bildnis-Radierungen bekannter Persönlichkeiten.Leipzig, 1920.
€ 35.000,00Nr. 33 von 50 Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe (Gesamtauflage: 150), jedes der Blätter hier mit den zusätzlichen Signaturen der dargestellten Persönlichkeiten. Die Portraitierten sind Lovis Corinth, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Gerhart Hauptmann, Wolfgang Heine, Ludwig von Hofmann, Arno Holz, Arthur Nikisch, Wilhelm Ostwald, Max Reinhardt, Richard …
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44The book that brought Beethoven to China: one of 40 deluxe copies of the original editionBeethoven. Les grandes époques créatrices.Paris, 1928.
Auf AnfrageSigned first edition of Rolland's biography of Beethoven, a work that contributed much to shaping the 20th century's image of the great composer - notably in China, where the version prepared from 1931 onwards by Fu Lei (1908-66) and published in 1942 (as "Beiduofen de zuo pin ji qi jing shen") enjoyed widespread popularity. Beethoven's philosophy, …
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49Alfred Hitchcock's storyboard for "Stage Fright" in 340 pencil drawingsSketches with autograph annotations: storyboard for "Stage Fright".No place, ca. 1949.
€ 150.000,00Extraordinary autograph pre-production storyboard for Hitchcock's 1950 film "Stage Fright", comprising preparatory sketches for some three quarters of the film, including the infamous "false flashback" initial sequence, the rest of the first half of the film, the garden party scene and the finale. A rare collection of sketches and comments detailing …